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White Papers and so on:
ATS Sourcing Whitepaper written by Jake Firth of JobsInLogistics.com.
Staffing Strategies: Can You Find, Recruit, and Retain the Talent You Need?
Authoria's complimentary white paper
Multigenerational Recruiting Slide Presentation done at OnRec by John and Bridget Sumser.
Reveille and Hyperbole:
The quarterly executive employment
outlook survey, conducted by TheLadders.com,
a job search service for the 100k+ segment of the employment marketplace, has
found 58 percent job seekers think that now is a better time to be looking for a
job versus this time last year. The majority of job seekers (64 percent) expect
to apply to less than 50 job listings before receiving an offer (31percent say
between 20-50 job listings; 31 percent say less than 20). However, 36 percent of
those surveyed expect to apply to at least 50-100 or more jobs before getting an
offer. Thirty-five percent of executive job seekers believe their search will
take less than three months. Chimes Inc., a
wholly owned subsidiary of Computer Horizons Corp. (CHRZ),
hosted its fourth Customer Forum October 5-6 at the Westin Kierland Resort in
Scottsdale, Ariz. Chimes executives, customers and guest speakers from the
research sector gathered to discuss the trends in human capital management (HCM)
and Chimes' products and services in this arena. The forum provided an
opportunity for Chimes' customers, including HR and procurement executives from
industries ranging from healthcare to airlines to financial services, to discuss
current challenges and emerging best practices in HCM and exchange views on the
future direction of the sector.
Four leading Aon Corporation (AOC
- News) executives have been selected as Women to Watch by Business Insurance
magazine. Recognized for their contributions to the industry were: Corbette
Doyle, global chief diversity officer of Aon Corporation; Kathryn Hayley, chief
executive officer of Aon Consulting U.S.; Kathleen M. Burns, chief executive
officer of Aon Risk Services Americas eSolutions; and Kelly Smith, executive
vice president of Aon Re Global.
Deck Chairs:
Sandra L. West, previously the
executive vice president human resources of Limited Brands, Inc., has been
appointed as executive vice president and chief human resources officer of
Tween Brands, Inc./...NWP
Services Corp. has hired Richard Little as vice president and CFO.
Previously, Little was finance chief and secretary of Hireright....Melissa
Anderson, who was the vice president human resources of IBM Global
Financing, has been named as senior vice president human resources of
The Pantry, Inc....IIC
Partners, a global organization of independent, retainer-based search firms,
has elected Martine Bournerias as its board chair and appointed Jim Conroy as
executive director. Ms. Bournerias is a senior partner of Progress, the fifth
largest search firm in France. Mr. Conroy is a former chairman of IIC Partners
(2000-2003) and founder of Conroy Ross Partners of Calgary...BioQuest
LLC, a retained executive search firms for the life sciences industry, has
appointed Karen Skillen as managing director of its biopharmaceutical practice.
Ms. Skillen comes to BioQuest after nearly 10 years at Korn/Ferry, where she
worked in the Northeastern pharmaceutical corridor and then in the Bay Area,
managing searches for large and specialty drug companies in the areas of
pharmaceuticals, biologics, nutraceuticals and consumer medicines....
Executive search firm
Marshall Consultants has named Peter Dowd as chairman.......Jeffrey
S. Campbell, a veteran restaurant industry human resources executive, has joined
Morton's The Steakhouse as vice president, chief people officer, it was
announced today by Edie Ames, president of the fine-dining restaurant group.
There are 71 Morton's steakhouses throughout the U.S. and in Canada, Hong Kong
and Singapore, with more scheduled to open. Morton's The Steakhouse is a
subsidiary of Morton's Restaurant Group, Inc. ....Kristi B. Bowden was named
vice president/human resources for the Detroit Newspaper Partnership Thursday.
In her new position, will be responsible for all human resources functions,
including benefits administration, compensation programs, employee relations,
retention, training and development, staffing, employee communication and labor
relations. She was also named to the executive committee of the Partnership, the
name for the joint operating agreement between Gannett Co.'s Detroit Free Press
and MediaNews Group's Detroit News....Lucas
Group, an executive search firm, promoted Neil
Handwerker as general manager of its Legal division...Steve
Bilsborough has been appointed as head of broadcast media & entertainment for
Omni Executive Search and
Interim (Omni ESI).
You Should Know:
Australia:
Shortage of people, not skills
YOUNG women, indigenous people and skilled migrants should be targeted to fill
an additional 70,000 jobs in the mining sector by 2015, industry representatives
said yesterday.
A report by the National Institute of Labour Studies predicted an extra 42,000
tradespeople and semi-skilled workers would be needed in Western Australia over
the next 10 years, followed by projected figures of 15,000 new positions in
Queensland and 5000 each for NSW and South Australia. "Certainly in WA and
arguably also in Queensland it is very much becoming a people shortage," said
the state's Chamber of Minerals and Energy director Reg Howard-Smith.
(The
Australian)
China:
China braced for pensioner boom
Every day at 8am, home help Wei Qing arrives at pensioner Ge Qigong's one-roomed
apartment and sets about cleaning the cramped but tidy space. Ge Qigong (right)
relies on the state to look after him Mr Ge is not wealthy. Wei Qing's first job
is to unlock the bathroom, which is shared by nine families. We're just like
friends," she said. "I've been looking after him for a year, when I'm done with
my chores we sit down and have a chat." (BBC)
Global:
YouTube success to spawn $2bn video ASP boom
ABI Research predicts huge potential for white-label video providers
The phenomenal success of YouTube and other video sharing services has
spawned a new breed of application service provider, known as broadband video
ASPs, that enable media firms and enterprises to put content online. According
to ABI Research, these emerging firms are set to cash in by offering publishing,
syndication, commerce, content management, security and other platform
components in the form of software-as-a-service. The research firm expects the
broadband video ASP market to reach a turnover of $1.9bn by 2011 (Infomatics)
How will you shop for groceries in 2010?
What do rising gas prices, aging baby boomers and a growing ethnically diverse
population have in common? They are all factors driving trends in food's
ever-changing landscape. With less disposable income, specialized needs and
fewer minutes to spare, we shoppers will be increasingly on the hunt for unique,
cheap and easy-to-find foods. Club stores (like Costco), dollar stores, and
supercenters (like Wal-Mart) have had a huge impact on prices at retail across
many different formats, forcing other retailers to offer more competitive prices
to compete for the value-oriented customers. This is sending a clear message to
grocery stores: Go big, go value, go niche or go away. And while niche suppliers
like Whole Foods do well among its targeted demographic (singles and higher
earners), there are more areas of the country that can support value retailers
than can support the likes of Whole Foods and Wild Oats. (MSNBC)
EU Prepares Strategy to Tackle Demographic Change
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Making it easier to balance
career and family is an EU goal
The European Union Commission on Thursday agreed on a strategy paper to address
demographic change in the 25-member bloc, including support for balancing the
demands of both family and career. According to EU Social Affairs Commissioner
Vladimir Spidla, the first point of the strategy is to put in place policies and
support systems that would allow EU citizens to "have as many children as they
wish." In addition, older persons should be able to work longer, said Spidla.
According to estimates provided by the commissioner, the number of Europeans of
working age (between 15 and 64 years old) will shrink by 20 million by the year
2030, even taking into account 1.8 million immigrating into the EU every year.(DWWorld.de)
Human Capital Study Benchmarks Industry
The Cable Television Human Resources Association has been conducting
compensation surveys for almost two decades. But this year the organization
expanded on that theme to create the Human Capital Metrics Survey. Companies are
increasingly looking for human capital and human resource benchmarking metrics
to help HR departments maximize their return on investments, said CTHRA
executive director Pam Williams. So the organization teamed up with Saratoga, a
PricewaterhouseCoopers division that maintains the world's largest database of
human capital metrics and benchmarks, to create a human capital metrics survey
that benchmarks cable against other businesses. (Broadcast
News)
Corporate America embraces social networking
IAS COLLEGE STUDENTS who are accustomed to finding each other on Facebook and
MySpace graduate andstart working, the business world is adopting their social
networking habits in the work-a-day world. A handful of startups have
launched social networking services to business users and to companies, hoping
that new workers will use them to find customers and contacts the way they once
used these sites to find dates. (Inside
Bay Area)
India:
Google caches Yahoo!'s top geek in India
Google, which has till now been on a futile search to hire good talent for its
research centre in Bangalore, has come up with a prize catch: arch rival
Yahoo!'s chief technology officer in India, Prasad Bharat Ram. Ram played a key
role in building a 750-strong team of scientists and engineers in the two years
he headed the company's Bangalore centre. That must come as big relief for the
world's most-used search engine. In the last three years, Google India has been
able to grow its R&D team to just around 100 scientists. (DNAIndia)
Sweden:
Sweden: Rethinking the IKEA Syndrome
At the world's largest IKEA, in Kungens Kurva outside Stockholm, what you don't
see is as important as what you do. Venture inside, and you'll find wide aisles,
dream-home displays, caravans of pushcarts and trolleys and stack upon stack of
every conceivable item you could want for your home—not to mention armies of
shopping-overdosed families heading for the self-service cafeteria. Note
that "self-service." For what you don't see is a complementary army of
salespeople. Indeed, you may not see any. That's because IKEA, planted like so
many blue-and-yellow Swedish flags in 35 countries, is even more Swedish than
most people realize. It's so expensive to hire people in Sweden that companies
from IKEA on down would much rather you helped yourself, thank you. As for the
self-assembly presumed by most IKEA purchases? That's part of it, too.
......Until recently, most Swedes liked the idea that life in their country was
more equitable than elsewhere. But global competition is now persuading many to
rethink the whole issue of employment. McKinsey warned in August that the high
cost of doing business in Sweden would force companies to "move 100,000 to
200,000 jobs offshore in the next 10 years." Sweden has enjoyed outstanding
economic growth, but it came in part because companies shed jobs to boost
productivity. In the run-up to last month's general election, the independent
National Institute of Economic Research suggested that Sweden had hit a growth
ceiling: unless the labor supply expanded, GDP growth would slow. (Newsweek
International)
UK:
Realise your
potential
If you really want to make sure you press all the right recruitment buttons,
call in the experts, says Sue Weekes.
When recruitment management systems emerged in the 1990s, many HR professionals
thought their prayers had been answered. They could reduce their reliance on
recruitment agencies and handle a high volume of applications, and it meant
employers could target and channel potential talent much more effectively. But
while these systems have undoubtedly streamlined recruitment processes, many
organisations are still failing to exploit their full potential. And with more
than 100 recruitment management technology options, choosing and implementing a
system is no simple task. (PersonnelToday)
US:
Disney Recruiters Seek Lubbock College Students
Mickey Mouse is looking for college students interested in the opportunity of a
lifetime. Disney is searching worldwide for students willing to spend a semester
in Orlando, Florida, as part of a paid internship program. (KCBD!!)
Buffett warns execs to be alert on ethics
Don't be a lemming. That is Warren Buffett's warning to top executives at his
company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. According to a story by The Associated Press,
Buffett cautioned managers that many corporate scandals arise because
questionable activity is accepted as normal behavior. (CourierPost)
Study: Commuting trends changing
• Immigration wave expected to have unexpected impact
• Working from home another new factor
For the tens of thousands of Central Valley residents who commute to work in the
Los Angeles Basin or the San Francisco Bay Area, the daily slog through crawling
traffic is part of life. But as the nation's population changes its makeup,
largely through immigration, those patterns may change as well, a new report
says. Commuting trends are changing as baby boomers near retirement age at the
same time that a large immigrant population has joined the U.S. labor force,
according to "Commuting in America III," the latest decadal review of the
nation's commuting patterns authored by transportation consultant Alan Pisarski
and published by the Transportation Research Board. (CVBT)
Two kinds of immigration
DEBATES OVER immigration have intensified over the past few years, but the
nation's understanding of how immigration affects the economy has not kept up.
Both those who want to liberalize immigration laws and those who favor severe
restrictions have often provided incomplete or misleading analyses of how
current practices affect the nation's labor market. These commentators also
often fail to distinguish between the more favorable economic impacts of legal
immigration and the more negative consequences of illegal immigration. (Boston.com)
A surge in immigration is spawning a backlashIn Charlotte, N.C., the
foreign-born population is growing fast. So is the anger against them.
In the Mecklenburg County jail, an inmate in an orange jumpsuit puts his finger
on an electronic pad and watches his fingerprint appear on a computer screen.
Within minutes, the computer returns a name - Arturo Romero - with photographs
and a rap sheet that details a history of petty offenses and illegal entries
into the United States from Mexico. Romero, arrested here for having an open
container of beer in a vehicle, now faces a trip to an immigration detention
center in Atlanta and deportation to Mexico. In booming Charlotte, where rapid
growth and plentiful jobs have attracted thousands of illegal immigrants, Romero
is the latest catch in an aggressive new effort to turn routine arrests into
one-way tickets out of the country. (philly.com)
Deep Release:
Five ways to defuse the demographic time bomb
Europe's ageing population is an unprecedented challenge for the whole of
society, but it is a challenge we must rise to, and we must rise to it now,
concludes the European Commission's new Communication on "The demographic future
of Europe – from challenge to opportunity". It underlines Member States' ability
to meet the challenges of a shrinking workforce and an ageing population. The
keys to success are the promotion of demographic renewal, more jobs and longer
working lives, higher productivity, integrating migrants and sustainable public
finances.
Vladimír Špidla, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal
Opportunities said: "Concerns over the demographic time-bomb must translate into
action and reform now. The next 10 years provide us with a window of
opportunity. Let's not miss it!"
The new Communication sets out five areas for concrete action to help Member
States adapt to demographic change in their own national context:
- Helping people to balance work, family and private life so that
potential parents can have the number of children they desire;
- Improving work opportunities for older people;
- Increasing potentially productivity and competitiveness by valuing the
contributions of both older and younger employees;
- Harnessing the positive impact of migration for the job market;
- Ensuring sustainable public finances to help guarantee social protection
in the long-term.
Commissioner Špidla added: "The Europe of tomorrow starts today. Public policies
need to be adapted to the new demographic order. For example: increasingly women
between 30 and 45 have to carry a triple burden: having children, making a
career and taking care of aging parents. In a "life cycle approach" we need to
make our educational systems and our work patterns more flexible to support
those who want to have children when they want them." He added: "It is important
that member states give a strong signal to businesses and citizens to change
their expectations and attitudes, particularly in the labour market."
The EU's strategy for "Growth and Jobs" is designed to meet the challenges of
ageing. It sets out concrete steps for reform: Changes are needed in the way
businesses operate, the way we organise work and how we manage change. Today's
Communication does not call for a new strategy to deal with ageing, but rather
underlines the need for Member States to step up efforts and make the "Growth
and Jobs" strategy a reality. The challenge of Europe's ageing population needs
to be integrated in all policies.
Europeans are living longer, in better health and women have more equal
access to the job market. These are positive developments. But we also have to
reform our retirement policies. First results in member states are encouraging
and show that Europe can rise to the challenge.
Today, there are four people of working age for every person over 65. Falling
birth rates, rising life expectancy and the retirement of the baby-boom
generation mean that, by 2050, this ratio will have dropped to two workers
paying for one pensioner. But even though the share of Europe's working age
population will fall, overall employment in the EU is projected to continue
rising until 2017, due to more women and older people entering the labour market
and staying in work.
Today's communication follows up on the recent public consultation on
demography[1] and the Hampton Court informal summit in October 2005. At the same
day, the European Commission is launching a management and labour consultation
on balancing professional, private and family life and publishing a
communication on the sustainability of public finances (see IP/06/1356)
Launch of the first stage of consultation of the social partners on the issue
of reconciliation of professional, private and family life
Much progress has already been made at EU level to ensure maternity and
parental entitlements for workers. Member States that have gone beyond Community
legislation in this area have shown the benefits of reconciliation policies:
combine flexible leave arrangements, quality care facilities for children and
other dependent family members and thereby ensure that more women participate in
the labour market.
The Demography Forum
Most of the issues linked to the demography debate are the responsibility of
Member States but they concern the EU as a whole. As a follow-up to today's
Communication, the Commission will be hosting on October 30th and 31st the first
biannual European Demographic Forum, bringing together national government
experts in the field. The aim is to identify and exchange best practices on
ageing policies (See attached MEMO/06/372 for examples of successful policies
from Member States), providing Member States with new ideas as well as helping
eliminate the perception of ageing as a threat to our economic and social
prosperity.
Link to Communication on Demography:
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/news/2006/oct/demography_en.pdf
Link to Communication on First-stage Consultation on reconciliation of
professional, private and family life:
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/news/2006/oct/consultation_reconciliation_en.pdf
The demography Forum:
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/emplweb/events/event_en.cfm?id=625
For more information:
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/social_situation/index_en.htm
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[1] 2005 Green Paper public consultation on demography:
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/news/2005/mar/comm2005-94_de.pdf
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/news/2005/mar/comm2005-94_fr.pdf
http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/news/2005/mar/comm2005-94_en.pdf
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